Shelters block

Our second third grade block was on shelters. I borrowed several books from the library by Bonnie Shemie, which gave us our reading material. We started a log dollhouse, but still have not finished it because we needed to shave off some flat areas on the logs so that they would fit together better, and since that is a job that Papa took on, it is taking a little longer than I had hoped because Papa is busy busy busy! So that project I expect to take most of the year!
We did do one fun project building a paper yurt.

Healer colored paper like wood for the lattice structure and roof poles, and he colored another paper as though it were hides sewn together. He measured and cut the pieces for the lattice walls, then glued them into the lattice structure:

Then he made the center circle and added the roof beams to it:

Then he added the outer skin cover to the bottom and top:

most of the other shelters work ended up in main lesson books, which I have not taken pictures of. He made drawings of various shelters.

Meanwhile, over in Kindergarten...

And just because he is a cute baby...

The violin in the picture above is some sort of electric toy that if you touch the metal string on the bow to the metal strings of the violin it plays twinkle twinkle little star. Our little Ollie Stomper loved it! Playing violin, just like his big brother!

 Halloween:

 Healer wanted to be Igor for Halloween (his friend was a mad scientist) but he needed a small pillow to pin to his back for a hump. I decided that this would be a good time to learn to use the sewing machine. First I gave him a paper that was a simple follow the path sort of thing that he stitched without thread just to get used to using the machine. Then I put in thread and he stitched a dot to dot. After that, he felt almost confident, so I gave him the fabric and he started sewing!

Then he stuffed it and then sewed the hole shut on the machine.

"Igor" and an "Undiscovered Species"

What I haven't posted

Okay, I have a lot of catching up to do! Here is what we have been up to in the last couple... months!
We continued to study Hebrew culture by celebrating Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. We made Challah, learned to say a phrase in Hebrew as well as write a word from the phrase (the gold writing below says, "Bereshit" or "In the Beginning". The walk by the river was to throw out our crumbs from our Rosh Hashana Challah in order to wash away our past mistakes.

Salix continued working on our gnome dolls

and drawing... here is a bee he drew for Zoobooks- they get a subscription and every month they ask for art submissions.

The Garden Loom was woven

Equinox...

Michaelmas! It was so warm! Some years I am freezing in a down parka, but we had a warm, long autumn and a beautiful day for our celebration this year. Michaelmas is a time for coming to terms with our inner dragons and finding the courage to face the dark time of winter that looms before us.

Photo courtesy of Michelle Seburn

Photo courtesy of Michelle Seburn

Photo courtesy of Michelle Seburn

Brother time...

Although this does not entirely catch us up to the present, I think it is all I have time for tonight.

Creation

Okay, WildRootsWoman wanted to see our work in progress, so I will start this and add to it as we progress.
This is Healer's 1 1/2 week block, painting the seven days of Creation.
I wish the colors looked more like they do on his paintings. We will start writing on the backs next week. Some days we did more than one painting.

Healer tends to get a bit worried when we are going to do lots of writing, especially when we are doing it on the back of a piece of art he has put a lot of effort into. So I made him a handwriting worksheet using the font: School Script Dashed, which gives him  a chance to write out some of the trickier words ahead of time. Some words I chose because their spelling will be difficult, some words I chose because I thought he might need some extra practice with certain letters (like the capital G in God). You can see off to the side I had him practice his k's when I noticed he was forming them incorrectly. We had a heated debate about how to correctly form a k in order to keep it fast, fluid, and legible. In the end, he grudgingly practiced it my way.

The Cover

Day 1

Day 2

 Day 3

 Day 4

 

 Day 5

 When he was finished, he sewed a seam on one side to make the paintings into a book.

These photos are all updated because I was able to take better ones that looked truer to the paintings. For some reason I'm having a hard time getting text in between some of the paintings, but Day 6 was the beasts and man and woman, and the seventh day is God resting from his work.